Whether you're a layman looking to understand your own transaction or a lawyer needing assistance with a client's conveyancing our step by step sale and purchase guides will lead you through the process while our mini guides will break the whole thing into manageable chunks and give a deep insight into the key issues and stages. Leasehold, freehold, unregistered, registered – we've got it all covered.
Need help with a remortgage or transfer of equity / deed of gift? Our guides will walk you through the process and highlight some of the common pitfalls. Mortgages and transfers can be very simple procedures but complex issues can sometimes arise and mistakes are easily made. These guides will help you deal with them.
So you want to have a go at your own conveyancing? First you should read about the risks, then if you're still happy to proceed, our guides will take you through each stage of the process telling you what to look out for and helping you avoid falling into expensive traps. Our subscription service will give you access to all of the documents you should need for your conveyancing and we can even supply you with the Land Registry Official Copies you'll need. Our general guides will cover all the obstacles you are likely to face and offer a practical solution. Have a look at our sale and purchase guides too.
A big part of the conveyancing process is the conveyancing searches. This section tells you all about them. What they are, how and when to order them and how to interpret the results. Each search has its own guide and you'll see they are separated into Standard (should be done in every case), Regional (area specific) and Optional (not essential but often useful tools for the would be purchaser). All buyers should beware that when you buy a property, the law assumes that you have seen the information that would have been revealed by searches whether or not you have actually carried them out, so you buy the property subject to the results.
Using a conveyancer to handle your conveyancing will greatly reduce the risk to you and sometimes, particularly if you are taking out a new mortgage, you will have no choice but to instruct a conveyancer. The good news is it doesn't have to break the bank. Get a free, instant quote here. We can also help with quick easy quotes for other moving related services.
Are you looking for the documents you'll need for your conveyancing transaction? Or official copies of the title or other documents from Land Registry. We can help you. Follow the links below.
We (my partner and I) are hoping to buy a freehold property this year, the deposit for which will be made up of the equity from our current home which will be sold, and some gifted money. The gifted money has been given to us by my partners father.
However, the money that we have been gifted has been sent to us by my father-in-laws friend. The context for this is that my father-in-law lent some money to his friend to support him at a time of need. My father-in-law is 80+ and my understanding was this transaction happened many many years ago and I am unsure if this was done via a bank transaction or in cash. This money has now been returned, but rather than transferring the money back to my father-in-law's account, it was agreed that the money would be transferred directly to my partners account to 'cut out the middle man'. So we have some money that has been gifted by my father-in-law but has been sent to us from his friends account and not his.
So, we are hoping you will be able to advise us on this and let us know if this money can be used? If so, what would a conveyancer require to allow this money to be used towards the deposit?
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